Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Taiwan has asked South Korea for assistance investigating a Chinese-owned ship suspected of cutting a subsea cable off its northern coast on Friday. Taiwan telecoms operator Chunghwa Telecom and the Taiwan Coast Guard said on … Read more
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was feted with a red carpet, garlands of flowers and “alohas” as he kicked off his two-day stopover in Hawaii on Saturday, November 30, part of a Pacific tour that has sparked fiery rhetoric from Beijing. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has responded to Lai’s first overseas … Read more
Taiwan’s communications with the outside world rely on a total of 15 undersea cables – a tenuous state of affairs for the self-ruled island, which lies about 200km (124 miles) from mainland China, and next door to world’s largest army, by headcount, and the largest navy, by total number of ships. It is no surprise … Read more
For many years, the United States has been sending warships through the Taiwan Strait in a corridor it considers to be “international waters”. The transits, which are regularly announced by the US military, are intended to demonstrate US commitment to a “free and open Indo-Pacific” and to “upholding freedom of navigation for all nations as … Read more
